Costs of contact arrangements

Griffiths v Griffiths 2022 EWHC 113 (Fam)

Arbuthnot J allowed an appeal against an order for direct contact made by the circuit judge at the DRA on the basis that the judge had not given sufficient reasons when dealing with the requirements of PD12J. She also considered the court’s power to direct who should pay the costs of contact supervision and how the court should allocate responsibility when there had been findings of domestic abuse against the person seeking contact.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Fam/2022/113.html

Re D 2016 EWCA Civ 89

A case whereby the father was ordered to pay the costs of supervision by an independent social worker of contact with his children

https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2016/89.html

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